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Re: COUNT() with ORDER BY

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On Mon, Jan 14, 2008 at 09:02:46PM +0200, Andrus wrote:
> create temp table test (col char);
> select count(col) from test order by col;
> 
> causes
> 
> ERROR:  column "test.col" must appear in the GROUP BY clause or be used in 
> an aggregate function
> SQL state: 42803
> 
> 
> How to fix this ?
> This statement is generated by DbLinq driver and it is difficult to re-qrite 
> the driver.

Sorry? The query is entirely non-sensical. The output will be a single
row telling you the number of non-null elements in the col column. How
can it be ordered?

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